* AdoredByTheNetwork: Throughout the show's long run, it kept the exact same time slot from the very beginning to the very end: Mondays at 9:00 pm.** Referenced in the O.J. Simpson chase expy:--> '''Miles''':"...and ABC wouldn't break into ''Series/HomeImprovement'' for the Second Coming!"* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: [[spoiler:When Colleen Dewhurst died, Avery Brown (Murphy's Mother, whom she played) died in series.]]* DirectedByCastMember: Joe Regalbuto, who played Frank, directed 20 episodes over the course of the series. He went on to direct a number of episodes for ''[[Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow George Lopez]]''.* ExecutiveMeddling: They tried. According to Candice Bergen at the TV Land Awards, executives were a little concerned that a 40-something woman recently back from rehab might not be sympathetic, and asked if she could be a 20- or 30-something woman recently back from a spa vacation. Diane English protested, and it was eventually averted.* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Oh, seasons 2 through 10, will you ever see the light of day on DVD?** Highly unlikely, given the poor sales for the season 1 set and the high cost of licensing the vintage Motown music used on the show.* TheOtherDarrin: Up until and including the episode where Jim and Doris separated, Doris was played by Janet Carroll. In the final season, she was played by Concetta Tomei. The difference was notable, to say the least.* RealLifeWritesThePlot:** When Murphy Brown became a single mother, Dan Quayle used her as a [[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975627,00.html condemnation of single parents]]. An entire episode addressed Quayle's attack (including the [[RippedFromTheHeadlines actual New York Daily News]] "[[http://www1.dailynewspix.com/sales/sales_image.php?name=50U0VKMT.jpg&id=155474&lb=10_390092&size=small QUAYLE TO MURPHY BROWN: YOU TRAMP!]]" headline), taking the angle that in the show's universe, Quayle was talking about "real" television journalist Murphy Brown, as opposed to Murphy Brown the fictional character. Followed by a TakeThat of Murphy Brown dumping potatoes on the White House lawn.** When the [[spoiler:Colleen Dewhurst, the actor who played Murphy's mother, died in early Season 4, her character also died on the show in the episode "Full Circle", which was dedicated to her.]]** Murphy has five Emmys, and Candice Bergen won five Emmys for playing Murphy* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Creator/TheBBC, not CBS. The series wasn't bought for showing on British terrestrial television until after the Dan Quayle affair, several years after it had started. [=BBC2=] then dumped it in the same early evening slot that played host to ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' and ''Series/DeGrassiJuniorHigh'', and pulled it after the first eight episodes had been shown. (Reviewers making unflattering comparisons to ''Series/DropTheDeadDonkey'' didn't help... interestingly, [[AmericansHateTingle that series flopped when it was shown in America]].)* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:** If any sitcom can be said to be an ''intentional'' period piece, it's the unabashedly topical ''Murphy Brown''. An early ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode poked fun at the show's tendencies by having its characters engage in a conversation where the ''only intelligible words'' are references to then-current events, all of which were hilariously dated ''in 2000'', less than ten years after the show's heyday.** There's also the fact that the show's entire tone seemed geared to Baby Boomers. Alongside the Motown soundtrack and the heavy protest-era nostalgia, the Boomers Murphy and Frank come off a lot better than Jim (the senior anchor, who is an [[TheComicallySerious old fuddy-duddy]],) and Corky (the Gen-Xer, who starts off a [[BrainlessBeauty total moron.]])----